Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy

by kerouac&dylan

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2002-08-17 08:19:00

“…These senior Republicans include former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush’s national security adviser. All say they favor the eventual removal of Saddam Hussein, but some say they are concerned that Mr. Bush is proceeding in a way that risks alienating allies, creating greater instability in the Middle East, and harming long-term American interests. They add that the administration has not shown that Iraq poses an urgent threat to the United States.”
for full article the link is http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html?todaysheadlines also talks about the government desiding on how iraq should be governed after this, like we want to implant a government we approve of, in history hasn’t this stratagy been used before, was it in veitnam that we tried to kill off the leaders we didn’t like and implant one of our choosing, of course that was for a different reason, we were paronoid back then. it just doesn’t seem right for us to implant our own goverment rules on them, im not saying we should let iraqs people die or be treated badly but whos that guy in early history that said in the end its up to the people of the government to deside there own, that eventually if a leader pisses his countries citizens off they will revolt, aand maybe there not strong enough but why is it that we get to use our force over them, doesn’t seem right either, i don’t know what they or we should do, seems like a loose loose situation, please share your opinon on what we should do.